Wings have fallen off our plane, Congress leader on India economy
New Delhi, India - The Congress party in India on Wednesday criticised the Narendra Modi-led government over the state of economy after a senior ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader aired his views on the ‘mess’, and warned people to brace for tougher times ahead.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is your copilot and FM speaking. Please fasten your seat belts and take brace position. The wings have fallen off our plane’, Congress party vice-president Rahul Gandhi tweeted while sharing an article BJP leader Yashwant Sinha wrote in The Indian Express, critical of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Sinha, who was the finance minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, lashed out at ‘superman’ Jaitley for making a ‘mess’ of the Indian economy which is headed for a ‘hard landing’ as sector after sector is slip- ping into distress. Sinha claimed that his views reflected the ‘sentiments of a large number of people in the BJP who are not speaking up out of fear’.
Former finance minister and Congress party leader P Chidambaram said Sinha had spoken the truth and shown mirror to the government by noting that had it not changed the method- ology for calculation of the GDP in 2015, the growth rate of 5.7 per cent would have actually been 3.7 per cent or less. ‘Yashwant Sinha speaks ‘Truth to Power’. Will Power now admit the Truth that economy is sinking?’, Chidambaram tweeted.
Referring to Sinha’s article in which he also wrote that when the BJP was in opposition, it was against the ‘raid raj’ but now it seems to have become the order of the day, Chidambaram said, ‘Instilling fear in the minds of the people is the name of the new game, says Yashwant Sinha’.
‘Eternal truth: No matter what Power does, ultimately Truth will prevail’, said Chidambaram.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said Sinha had ‘rightly spoken as to how an experimental Finance Minister and an autocrat Prime Minister can wreck India’s economy’.